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Good article. Glad to see someone taking the grievances of the social movements seriously, but the piece could have gone much further in terms of elaborating the concrete reasons behind CONAIE's break with Correa. It's not just CONAIE, btw, but also important sectors within the unions and student federations, as well as the MPD. The international left also needs to have an objective understanding of Ecuador's ongoing relationship to imperialism vis-a-vis the institutional connections with the Armed Forces of Ecuador, which are doing everything they can to keep the FARC contained, as part of the ongoing strategy of Plan Colombia. Greg McDonald On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:59 AM, glparramatta <glparrama...@greenleft.org.au> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > By *Paul Kellogg * > > October 26, 2010 -- It is not difficult to see that the events of > September 30, in the Latin American country of Ecuador, amounted to an > attempted right-wing coup d’état. Mass mobilisations in the streets and > plazas of Quito (the capital) and other cities – in conjunction with > action by sections of the armed forces which stayed loyal to the > government – stopped the coup before the day was out. But those few > hours highlighted, again, the deep dangers facing those fighting for > progressive change in Latin America and the Caribbean. > > Remarkably, the first task is to re-assert that in fact a coup attempt > took place. In the wake of the failure of the coup, commentator after > commentator was trying to minimise what happened. Peruvian “libertarian” > Álvaro Vargas Llosa – darling of the World Economic Forum and outspoken > critic of Che Guevara and the current governments of Bolivia and > Venezuela – insists that it was not a coup just an “ill-advised, violent > protest by the police against a law that cut their benefits”. > > Let us examine the facts... > > http://links.org.au/node/1960 > > ********************************* > > Subscribe free to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal at > http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 > > You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism > > Or join the Links Facebook group at > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 > > > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gregmc59%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
